I am not a registered user, but when I search for my posts with the search within the forum and I specify my name as the search criteria for "author" nothing comes up. I thought I should find my posts, even as an unregistered contributer.

I look at the forum as a knowledge base, and I never ask (or answer) a question without doing a query first. But phpBB's built-in search feature — as with most forum software — leaves somewhat to be desired. So I made my own customized search plug-ins for Firefox:

Since the BBS change, G's search engine results look more repetitive (one line of content instead of two in their overview). This is happening with items showing new URLs containing "f=##". Ex:Before-http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=####vs.After-http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=##&t=####

Google wrote:In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the ### already displayed.If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.